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Logarithms were an Irwentionof excel/enz

Art and uß’fulntff; Ändyet it waa a conßderahle time, before the Learned Men in other parts, did ß) Гаги‘ tab@ notice ofthem ‚ a5 to hring them into tje.

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Shorthand , is in it;` ‘три! an Ingenieur de'uice , and of con/iderahle ußefulneßßpplicahle to any Language, much . naondered athy îrafoailergthat 'have feen the experience

­ ofit in England: Änd yet though it he aho‘ve Three­` p ратует‘, ßnce it waa Invented , ’tir not to this day (for ought I can learn) hrought into common pra ¿iice in any other Nation. /Ind there is reaßn enough to expeöì' the like Fatefor the deßgn here propofed. The only expedient I can thinlî ofagain/î it, is, That it hefent ahroad into the' World, with the reputation of ha'ving hin conßdered and approved of, hy fuch a Soci

ety ai' thu; тыс/пику’ prot/olie, at lea/t , the Learned

part ofthe World,to шаг notice of it, and to gine it[uch ` encouragement, aa it Ли” appear to dcß’r‘ve. ­

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n dation ‘hy thu’­ Society, the deßgn here торфа’, flJOMlól Ahappen to come into common ufe, I_t would парте the

Honour you lne/loin upon it , with ahundant Iтете/1. The Бета‘; Inßrumental in any Лис/9 difcofvery aa does tend to the ‘Uniwetfal good ofМал/фиг’, heingfußìcient

not only toy malîe the Authors ofit famoua, hut ат) the and Íînonar Places how wherein they/ine. ' Times Не that to e/limate, that judgment infli-l

¿ted on Мат/31114222 the Cuife ofthe Confuíïon ,l with n allthe unhappy confequencer of it , may therehy judge,

'what great advantage and heneßt there will he, in a re _ medy again/tit’.

'Men are content to lie/low much time

and paint in _the Study of Languagef, in 'order to their ‘ ‚ more eafy caniverßng with thofe ofother Nations. 71;

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